- The local Citizens' spokesman, Manuel Padín, recalled that the Ministry committed to draft the reform in 2016, as this year will be budgeted and start work, "but the truth is that in mid-October of 2017 are still studying the subject, the temporary barracks are still in the same place, and more and more students, who choose this center because of proximity and its distinctive offer in English, are left out.
Cartagena, Monday, October 16.
Citizens in Cartagena has transferred to their group in the Regional Assembly the serious deficiencies in the Institute of Secondary Education (IES) Los Molinos, Barrio Peral.
Los Molinos is a public center with a great demand, since it is the only one in the Region that since 2005 has joined a pioneering educational project in Spain and Europe for the development of projects of bilingual education and Integrated Language Content Learning Foreign, the MEC-British Council.
Due to the growing demand, the Ministry of Education installed three prefabricated classrooms in 2015, which should be only a temporary measure pending the necessary expansion of the center.
The Association of Parents and Mothers of students have already requested on several occasions, since 2014, the expansion of the facilities, but from the General Directorate of Educational Centers, as reported by the newspaper La Verdad a few days ago, has only repeated who are studying these works.
The spokesperson for the orange formation in Cartagena, Manuel Padín, said: "You can not make the parents of this institute any worse, they have listened for years to the regional administration that the enlargement will take place, Maria Isabel Sánchez-Mora, said two years ago that her department "had plans" to solve this problem, then placed the barracks before the possibility of the parents being mobilized, and now almost three years after their first commitment remain in the same place where they were, saying that "they are studying the subject".
The local Citizens' spokesman recalled that the Ministry committed to draft the reform in 2016, as this year will budget and start work, "but the truth is that in mid-October 2017 continue to study the The barracks, which were to be temporary, are still in the same place, and more and more students, who choose this center for closeness and their distinctive offer in English, are left out. "
"We have asked our regional deputies to put pressure on the current Minister of Education, Adela Martínez Cachá, to commit himself with deadlines and budget to carry out the works," Manuel Padín assured that he has pledged that "if this interpellation or again Education continues to flee forward, we will try to include in the next regional budgets a specific item for the works of expansion of the classrooms of this institute.
On the other hand, Manuel Padin has also stated that "we will see if they at least comply with the expansion of the Ben Arabí Institute, which is in the contracting phase, and it is assumed that in a month will be tendered, ".
Source: Ciudadanos Cartagena